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English
Noun
onomatopoeiae
- (rare) plural of onomatopoeia
- 1912, Henri Alexandre Junod, The life of a South African tribe (Neuchatel: Attinger) p. 146 fn (1)
- Nor can I approve of the term employed by Torrend : onomatopoetic substantives. Substantives they are certainly not, as they pertain to none of the eight classes and have nothing of the nature of nouns. On the other hand, only a part of them are real onomatopoeiae, i. e. words resembling the sound made by the thing of which they are the names.
1943, Henry George Farmer, Saʾadyah Gaon on the Influence of Music, London: A. Probsthain, page 76:Al-Khwarizmi, who follows Al-Farabi's definitions slavishly, introduces but two onomatopoeiae tan and tanna to represent relatively, it would seem, ˘ and ¯.
Latin
Noun
onomatopoeiae
- inflection of onomatopoeia:
- nominative/vocative plural
- genitive/dative singular